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Brutal vision : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema /
Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films-including such classics as Rome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves -should b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | JSTOR EBA.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films-including such classics as Rome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves -should be understood less as national products and more as complex agents of a postwar reorganization of global politics. For these films, cinema facilitates the liberal humanist sympathy required to usher in a new era of world stability. In his readings of crucial films and newly discovered documents from. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816680245 0816675546 9780816675548 0816675554 9780816675555 0816680248 9781452947563 1452947562 |